The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-07-21
FROM MURPHY TO MANTEO.
SOME THINGS THAT ARE HAPPEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.
What Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.

CHRONICLE IN every section Of the State
are requested to aid us in making this de-
partment an accurate record, in brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo. Send
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public interest transpires in your neigh
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ton. Send on the postal cards. EDITOR. I
operation.
cotton compresss will at once be built
at Wilson.
-. The Elizabeth City Fair will be held
October II to 10.
-. AT Durham Monday the temperature
was 1OS in the shade.
1.-The Fayetteville District Confer
ence met at Maxton yesterday.
49,. Burglars are again at work at Will
mlngton, and are very daring.
.Sullivan's livery stables at Thomas
vile were burned last week; loss 81 200.
... There are now eleven orphans at
the Thompson Orphanage at Charlotte.
....Great quantities of watermelOns
are being shipped North from Carteret
county.
The Raleigh District Conference of
the Methodist church is in session at Frank
linton.
49,. The heat at Weldon Monday was
III degrees, according to the U. S. Signal
office reports.
The Christian denomination will
build q church at Durham The lot has
been purchased.
IA revival is in progress at Carrs
chanel (MathO6iCtl Jtnrha wit
thirty conversions.
Mrs Frank Fennell, of Duplin ooun-
ty, was struck by lightning last Friday
and fatally injured.
-. Charlotte will have the first Y M.
c. A. building in the State. Ground has
just been broken for it.
1.-The attendance at the five white
State Normal schools now in operation is
reported as larger than ever before.
John Jones, negro burglar, was
resentenced to death in the Criminal
Court at Wilmington this week.
-. Mrs. Hartshon, Jewess, of Dur
ham, is the proud mother of triplets-two
boys and girl-born Sunday last.
49,. Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Com
pany has no less than 10, 600, 900 pounds
of leaf tobacco in store at Durham.
... Five wolf scalps were taken to the
commissioners of Macon county last week
and for each IS was paid as reward.
... Wilmington will soon vote again
upon the question of subscription to the
Wilmington, Onslow & East Carolina R. R.
DIR. J. w. Jones, a prominent ply
slclan of GoldsborO, narrowly missed a
fatal sunstroke Sunday. He is yet very
sick
-. Ashevile has had great deal of
trouble about its new water-works, and
the Advance intimates that they are q
failure.
The authorities of the town of
MOcksville, Davie county, will prohibit
women from wearing Mother Hubbards in
public.
An idiotic negro boy, aged 9 years,
strayed from home near New Berne some
days ago, and despite all search cannot be
found.
....A bolt of lightning struck the sta
bles of Mr.. Thos. E. Powell, near Gold
Rock, and killed two valuable horses and a
fine OK.
80. Mr.. J. w. Reid, president of the
Winston Tobacco Company, who left that
place very unexpectedly last week, has re-
| turned.
49,. The Goth N. G. Reports is expected
| to appear in fortnight. 1t will contain
over 1 800 pages, and is to be in two vol
| umeS.
... Col. E. D. Hall, of Wilmington, is
recommending the line of the proposed
| railway from Wilmington into Onslow
| county.
... Mr.. G. w. Swain, of Danville, Va,
| has bought Glenvarloch, Mr.. II. A. Gudg-
er's beautiful farm just north of Asheville,
| for $24, 900.
-. The new Presbyterian church at
Dallas, CASTOR county, was dedicated last
Saturday by Rev. DIR. r. A. Anderson, OF
Morganton.
| -. Asheville votes next Thursday upon
the question of establishing graded school
system and levying special tax for ita
maintenance.
-. The Goldsboro Argus reports the
sun as damaging crops on light lands, but
says cotton on stiff clay laughs at the heat
and gaily grows.
-. "A competition examination of appli
cants for West Point Cadetship is in
progress at Weldon, in Congressman Sim
mons district.
| -. Mr.. John johnson, overseer at the
stone quarries at Granite, on the r. & G.
| II. w., was oOA iOuoAy AuAe W ASiAAu& tecAty
feet upon some stone.
| Alexander Hall, a venerable negro
fisherman, was found dead on a rock in The
Pee Dee river, in Rockingham county
He had died in commissions, while fishing
The citizens of the town of Beaufor,
have subscribed 81 ,OOC for the purpose o
building an assembly room for the Teach
ers' Assembly if its sessions are held there
Owing to dispute between thu
Durham authorities and the Water Works
Company, not drop of water, so mucl
needed, can be used. The people want 1
compromise.
The Hornets Nest Riflemen, of Char
lotte, and the Granville Gr2ys, Of Oxford
are at Morehead, in camp. The Reidsvill'
Light Infantry went to Aorehead Monday
to go into camp
49,. Cleveland county has voted $50,
900 subscription to the Southern q Wes
tern Airline r. r. (from Shelby to Gran
berry, Burke county is to vote on the
same proposition.
Mr.. John A. Lockfaw, a young me
chanic of Wilmington, has invented . nev
rice cleaning machine which is so chea]
and simple that any well-to-do farmer cal
afford to buy and run one.
49,. "A battery of light artillery is no,
being organized at Salisbury; also cavalr
company at Scotland Neck. Six new in